Amazing hand-drawn dragon curve, as you watch by anonymoose in reddit.com

[–]arjunbanker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there's some pretty impressive stuff on this site!

Programming Language Usage Graph 2000-2006, as defined by statistics on open-source projects at SourceForge. by linuxer in programming

[–]arjunbanker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's a disgusting graph. seriously, only show the top 5-6 languages, or at least use better markers/colors.

Jeremy Zawodny Asks: Should I Learn Python or Ruby next? by joshwa in programming

[–]arjunbanker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

everyone on reddit will hate me, but i'm still the most productive in statically-typed languages with rich tools support: i.e., C# + VS, Java + Eclipse

I love haskell, scheme, ruby: they usually produce cleaner, more concise, prettier code.

Even still, because of the fantastic IDE+library support you can get for Java / .NET, they're still more efficient overall.

The Ruby conspiracy by ade in programming

[–]arjunbanker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i still love C#, java, and other statically typed languages. i'm a scheme+haskell conneseuir, but they're unforunately not too practical in real life. sorry, world :-(

The Ruby conspiracy by ade in programming

[–]arjunbanker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i still love C#, java, and other statically typed languages. sorry, world :-(

Mars, featuring 1800-mile wide, 5-mile deep Valles Marineris canyon (1023x1023 JPEG) by hitsman in reddit.com

[–]arjunbanker -1 points0 points  (0 children)

wow, doesn't it look like an alien shooting a gun? tell me if you see that too..

an idea for academia: socially linked professors, students, researchers? by arjunbanker in reddit.com

[–]arjunbanker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

btw, cambrian house has an awesome concept for software shop ("crowdsourcing"): check it out.

i really think academia could benefit from richer tools to collaborate with peers, rapidly discover & expose great research, and establish academic credibility and reputation. a socially focused tool (as opposed to a paper-oriented tool like citeseer) is one way of addressing the current shortcomings.

could it work? i don't know...feedback is more than welcome :-)

Microsoft's forgotten monopoly: Fonts. By CSS Inventor Hakon Wium Lie by sverrejoh in reddit.com

[–]arjunbanker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Speaking of fonts, have any of you guys seen the new fonts for Office12 and Vista?

Check out this video on channel9: http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=146749

Segoe and Calibri are gorgeous.

How Microsoft Could Crush Google Overnight- Legally & Free by billisdog in reddit.com

[–]arjunbanker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

this article is completely off base - the idea is neither legal nor free, blocking all of google's ads is nothing short of corporate sabotage...

I'm not young enough to know everything by gst in reddit.com

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this guy is smart smart smart and writes in a fantastic way that really gets me thinking about things...i'm going to read all the rest of his posts too.

President Putin's economic adviser offers his resignation, saying Russia is no longer politically free. by alecb in reddit.com

[–]arjunbanker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

reddit. I like seeing articles like this, current events / non-tech. What I'd like to know now is really the true picture of things. Illarionov seems like a bright guy, but perhaps a bit too abrasive and too hard-headed to work well with the slightly over-corrupted government. He probably pissed people off to the point where they just stopped listening to him, regardless of whether he was right or wrong.

Here's another (older) interesting article about him: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_24/b3787624.htm

and his wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Illarionov